The Irishman stepped up two divisions to face Diaz at welterweight and after the fight admitted he envisages himself dropping back down to featherweight to face Jose Aldo in a rematch of the eagerly awaited fight which was over in just 13 seconds last year.

However, Edgar has urged McGregor to snub Aldo and face him at featherweight in his comeback fight instead.

“We’ve seen the Aldo show already,” Edgar told MMAjunkie Radio. “People watch fights because they’re interested in seeing who can win, and they don’t know the outcome. They’ve seen that already.”

“I don’t know if (McGregor) feels more comfortable because he knows he just beat (Aldo) the way he did.

"I don’t want to say scared, or coward, or whatever, but I just think that I’m the fight that would prove the doubters wrong.

“Now he has doubters. He always had haters. Now, after a performance like that, he’s going to have even more haters.

"You want to prove those people wrong? Come in here and beat me. He does that, he’s going to silence those doubters. He goes and beats Aldo, he’s not going to silence anybody. People are still going to question him against me.”